Investigating Faculty Members’ Perceived Usability of Edmodo Learning Management System

New developments in the field of computer science have allowed the development and dissemination of the systems that universities use to support their educational processes. Among these systems, learning management systems are at the top of the tools faculty members use to carry out online learning processes. Today, with the increase in learning management systems, meeting the need for usability testing is becoming more important both for ensuring user satisfaction and for revealing appropriate software solutions. This study seeks to understand how faculty members perceive the usability of a cloud-based learning management system that is widely used in many universities. The study adopted the convenience sampling method of purposeful sampling strategies. In the quantitative part of the study, the perceived usability was examined with the System Usability Scale by 12 faculty members. In the qualitative part of the study, the data about the usability issues that faculty members face in the software were collected by semi-structured interviews and investigated using content analysis method. Findings have shown that the web application side of the learning management system got an above average perceived usability. Besides, some issues that affect perceived usability were found regarding to system loading speed, site structure, assignment management and grading mechanism, Turkish language support, content filtering and labeling, and finally the badge system. The findings of this study are intended to provide guidance to software developers and decision makers to better understand the perceived usability of faculty members and to identify the need for improvement of the software usability